Beetles series | liewwk

beetles order of coleoptera and it consist millions of species… it is cute and good to shoot as normally it is quite big in size …

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update 2013 Feb 5

Rhinoceros beetle

update 2013 Jan 2

... Dogbane Beetle [Chrysochus auratus] ...
… Dogbane Beetle [Chrysochus auratus] …
update 2012 Nov 30

… weevils with pollens …

update 2012 Nov 23

… ladybird in love …
… giraffe beetle …
… tiger beetle …
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Beetle series

How I shoot MACRO

Cute Weevil | liewwk …

one of the best model for macro photographer .. weevil, they move slow, cute, and play “death” game with us …

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– very cute weevil, with long neck (male) .. but some with short neck too and very tiny + skittish insect

giraffe weevil , 棕長頸捲葉象鼻蟲

 

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– can see the pollen ..

weevil mating

 

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– one of the cute one

cute weevil

 

more Weevil

Weevil series

blinking trees … fireflies …

was my first experience shooting fireflies from top … look awesome … too bad the timelapse need more time to prepare .. so let me share the picture I capture …

... Blinking Tree ...

 

will have more to share about fireflies .. and I think I fall in love with it …

one of my favorite MACRO model – Tiger Beetle

I love to capture this beetle but too bad this beetle is skittish/shy .. and not easy to get close so have a closer shot .. so most of the shots I use SIGMA150 instead my MP-E65

1. the green one .. and most difficult to get close

… tiger beetle …

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animation make this beetle look scary

... tiger beetle animation ...

 

 

How I have more MACRO DOF …

As we know anything >1:1 macro, we have very limit DOF … I had it share before … what we DOF have while we shooting macro e.g. at crop body, F16 at 1:1 .. the dof we have is just ~1mm … so how we have more DOF ?

1. angle is important , if we want the main objects “focus”

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limit DOF

at certain angle, we have not possible to have both object focus .. e.g. choose one , shoot small to crop , or using stacking method I use (discuss before HERE)

by using the stacking … we can get both beetle focus as below

 

or discuss http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=922

 

of if we do not want to do much on post process… choose the best angle to have both object focus e.g.

 

more beetle collection click HERE

an interesting firefly ….

a bug that really make my day, we had a short night outing in a reserve jungle within KL …. within 2 hours .. we found few interesting model e.g. Spotted Litter Frog… , juvenile Spiny Turtle, Lovi’s Reed Snake & Marbled Forest Gecko

a nothing special while you see it at picture …..

 
 

... fireflies ? and it is ...

have a look how interesting is this firefly

 

I didn;t able to capture it’s head due to the environment … and would love to see it again

 

thanks Andy Paul for the ID
adult larviform female of a firefly from the lamprigera spp.